Facts About PPA

Delivering Hope to Millions of Patients in Need

America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are on a mission to improve patient health, advance medical innovation, and fuel economic growth. The medicines they create provide hope that a cure can be found, treatment will be effective, and patients’ lives can be lived to their fullest. The Partnership for Prescription Assistance is one way to help connect qualifying patients with the assistance program that’s right for them.

The Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA):

Is free, confidential, and it is easy for patients to find programs for which they may eligible to apply

Offers a single point of access to information on 475 public and private patient assistance programs, including nearly 200 programs offered by pharmaceutical companies

Includes programs offering more than 2,500 brand-name medicines, including a wide range of generics

Helps patients contact government programs such as Medicaid and Medicare

Includes more than 40 assistance programs that focus on the health care needs of children

Provides information on nearly 10,000 free health care clinics

Has connected more than 300,000 patients with clinics and health care providers in their communities

Helping Millions of Patients

Since its launch in April 2005, the PPA has connected more than 9 million people to patient assistance programs that may meet their needs

The patients helped through the PPA join the millions of other patients who have contacted individual biopharmaceutical company programs directly over the years

Who Is The PPA?

The PPA is sponsored by America’s biopharmaceutical research companies

These biopharmaceutical research companies are working with doctors, pharmacists, other health care providers, patient advocacy organizations and community groups to educate patients about the PPA

More than 1,300 leading national, state and local organizations have joined forces with the PPA

The groups behind the PPA include the largest and most influential in health care, such as the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Cancer Society, American College of Emergency Physicians, Easter Seals, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, United Way and the Urban League

Online Services

A user-friendly website (www.pparx.org) enables patients to find programs for which they may be eligible to apply

Patients can download or email and print out patient assistance program applications immediately